Dispensing carton



June 25, 1935. A D, M w|| s0N 2,005,924

DI SPENSING CARTON Filed Dec. l5, 1932 Patented June 2s, 1935 2,005,924

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE DISPENSING CARTON Dorian M. Wilson, Kalamazoo, Mich., assigner to Sutherland Paper Company, Kalamazoo, Mich.

Application December 15, 1932, Serial No. 647,372

1 Claim. (Cl. 229-17) The main object of this invention is to provide as shown in Fig. 1. The front wall has horizona combined shipping and dispensing carton for tal parallel slits I 3 across the same providing a merchandise such as packaged cough drops, canremovable section I4 which when removed prodies, medicines, and the like which is well adaptvides a horizontal discharge opening I5.

5 ed as a shipping carton or container and is also To facilitate removal of this strip I4 the slits 5 suitable as a dispensing carton or container, the I 3 are joined by a segmental series of perforamerchandise being easily removed therefrom tions I6 in the side walls joining the ends of the Vwithout handling by the clerk. slits I3 and providing break-out portions. The Objects pertaining to details and economies of rear wall has an ejecting opening Il in opposed my invention will appear from the description to relation to the discharge opening I5. 1o follow. The invention is deiined in the claim. The partition I 8 is arranged to intersect the "A structure which embodies the features of my ejecting opening and also the discharge opening invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanyso that the merchandise represented at I9 may ing drawing in which: be arranged in stacks. This partition prevents Fig. 1 is a front perspective view of my im- Wedging or displacement of the merchandise 15 proved carton adjusted as a shipping receptacle which is supported as in a magazine to automatior container, a portion of the front wall being cally feed into ejecting position as the bottom broken away to disclose the arrangement oi' the package is discharged.

merchandise therein. The package or carton is suitable for use as a Fig. 2 is a rear perspective view of the carton shipping container and is made ready for use 20 open to receive the merchandise. as a dispensing container or carton merely by` Fig. 3 is a vertical view from front to rear removing the strip I4. In the embodiment illusthrough the carton, the merchandise being shown trated this removal is facilitated by providing the in full lines and one of the packages of merchansegmental series of break-out perforations so the dise being partially ejected. connections for this strip are easily severed on 25 Fig. 4 is a plan view of the blank from which predetermined lines and Without the use of an the carton is formed. implement.

My improved carton comprises a front wall I, The embodiment of my invention illustrated is rear Wall 2 and end walls 3. 'I'hese walls condesigned for the packaging and dispensing of relastitute the side walls of the container. The bottively small packages of merchandise such as 30 tom I is connected to one of these side walls, prefcough drops. It will be observed, however, that erably the front wall, by means of the insetting the device is adapted to a wide range of merflap 5, this flap being foldable along the score lines chandise.

6 and l, see the blank in Fig. 4, so that when the Having thus described my invention what 1 carton is erected with the bottom between the claim as new and desire to secure by Letters 35 side walls the bottom is supported in an inset po- Patent is: sition. 'I'he bottom is provided with ilaps 8, 8 A dispensing carton comprising front, rear and and 9 on its remaining edges, each of a width end side walls, the front wall having parallel slits corresponding to the iiap 5 so that they constiextending horizontally across the same, the ends 40 tute supports for the bottom. of the slits being connected by a segmental series 40 The front is provided with a top or outer of perforations in the end walls providing breakclosure flap I0 provided with a tucking or retainout portions facilitating the removal of the poring tongue I I, while the end walls 3 are provided tion of the front wall between the slits to provide with top closure aps I2 lying within the top or a horizontal discharge opening.

outer closure ap I0 when the carton is closed DORIAN M. WILSON. 45 

